Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic National Convention in July, the phrase "boycott lettuce" became almost a password. It fell fervently from the lips of any number of heads of delegations, and it was finally consummated as a cause when Ted Kennedy, at the peak of convention excitement, began his speech: "Greetings, fellow lettuce boycotters...
During the summer, Cambridge interest groups and residents began to seriously question the wisdom of ripping open the Cambridge Common to build a garage needed for the prospected Kennedy Center flow of visitors. That flow--or tidal wave--is expected to peak at well above one million tourists per year when the complex opens...
...strange behavior has nothing to do with the economy at all; the often-approached but never-broken 1,000 mark* has become a psychological barrier. Every time the Dow gets near that level some investors sell, believing that the value of their securities is reaching a peak. Now, 974 has evidently become the point at which the warning signal starts flashing in their minds. Says William Freund, chief economist for the New York Stock Exchange: "There is a sort of folklore about the Dow, and 1,000 is a roadblock in the minds of many people...
...February, only about half the students working for HSA catering were on scholarship. During Christmas and summer in 1971, HSA catering employed a few people who had absolutely no affiliation with the University. "During a very peak season, there may have been one or two employees who are not Harvard students. When I was made aware that that happened, those employees got no more jobs." Ryan said, "What we have to do is make better efforts earlier to recruit people to work over Christmas...
...they need frequent recharging and deliver relatively little energy for their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...